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单词 genevese
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Genevesen.adj.

Brit. /ˌdʒɛnᵻˈviːz/, U.S. /ˈˌdʒɛnəˈviz/
Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Forms: 1600s 1800s Geneveses (plural), 1600s– Genevese.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Geneva , -ese suffix.
Etymology: < the name of Geneva (see Geneva n.) + -ese suffix. Compare post-classical Latin Genavensis (4th cent.), Genevensis (a1619). Compare earlier Genevan n., Genevian n., and later Genevois n.2 With the use as adjective compare earlier Genevan adj., Genevian adj., and later Genevois adj.
A. n.
A native of Geneva. Cf. Genevan n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Swiss > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Switzerland > parts of
Rhaetian1555
Genevese1650
Allobroges1652
Genevois1673
Zuricher1673
Bernois1687
Valaisan1776
Bernese1806
Valaisian1863
Ticinese1961
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico vi. 26 In their passage..over the Mountaines; on the one side by the French, on the other by the Geneveses [L. Geneuatibus] and Swisse, they might easily be distressed and cut off.
1697 D. Jones Secret Hist. White-Hall xliv. 81 This Genevese being thus re-established in the Favour of the Prince.
1740 M. D. tr. Marquis d'Argens Jewish Spy II. lxviii. 212 A Day may come, perhaps, when the Genevese will repent their having deck'd and trimm'd their City like a new Bride.
1794 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1891) XII. 489 The picture drawn in them, of the Genevese, is really interesting and affecting.
1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. i. 39 I am by birth a Genevese.
1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 260 A neat Protestant church, erected by..the Genevese.
1836 J. F. Cooper Sketches Switzerland: Pt. 2nd II. xxi. 124 The Geneveses are French in their language, in their literature, and consequently in many of their notions.
1881 A. Gray Lett. (1893) 719 All these Genevese speak English well, except Madame de Candolle.
1933 B. Faÿ Two Franklins i. iii. 27 Now the little Genevese worked around warm stoves, helped in their tasks by the purring of the fire.
1995 D. C. Steinmetz Calvin in Context i. 11 While the Genevese were jealous of their political independence, they nevertheless voted on May 25, 1536, to accept the Reformation.
B. adj.
1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of Geneva.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Swiss > [adjective] > parts of
Genevese1789
Bernese1816
Valaisian1917
Ticinese1964
Genevois1968
Valaisan1970
1789 G. Campbell in tr. Four Gospels I. x. v. 495 But there are, unquestionably, cases in which the Genevese interpreters employ the pronoun unnecessarily, awkwardly, and even improperly.
1816 Christian Observer Sept. 608/2 MM. Geyser..have exhibited to the Genevese Society for the Advancement of the Arts, a wheel which seems to turn of itself.
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) II. xix. 67 I have one object before me now—to get that Genevese girl for my wife.
1875 J. R. Lowell Wordsworth in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 409 The Genevese humorist, Toepffer.
1927 Isis 9 3 The term evolution was introduced by the great Genevese naturalist Charles Bonnet.
1962 E. J. Lovell Capt. Medwin v. 165 Byron's Genevese banker..wrote to Medwin.
2003 R. Giddings in I. Mackillop & N. Sinyard Brit. Cinema of 1950s 169 Dickens had been an eye–witness of the Genevese revolution in 1846.
2. Cookery. = Genevoise adj. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [adjective] > specific sauces
Périgueux1824
Genevoise1829
bigarade1833
Genevese1845
poblano1927
peri-peri1959
marinara1969
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery (ed. 2) iv. 108 Genevese Sauce, Or Sauce Genevoise.
1894 Newcastle Weekly Courant 10 Mar. 5/3 As for the sauce called Sauce Bordelaise, it is a variety of Genevese sauce, and got its name probably from the Bordeaux wine in it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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